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Those who connect via phone with South Korea<br \/>\nare even eligible for the death penalty. This threat has produced a gloomy atmosphere<br \/>\nin the area near the Chinese border,\u201d a source in North Hamgyong Province told<br \/>\nDaily NK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sources in Ryanggang and South Hamgyong Provinces<br \/>\ncorroborated this news.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lately, she continued, the State Security Department (SSD)<br \/>\nhas been dispatching experts with state of the art equipment to conduct<br \/>\nsurveillance and monitoring through wiretapping. They have been collaborating<br \/>\nwith Bureau 27 (Transmission Surveillance Bureau) in order to trace mobile phone signal direction and origin. Once the signal is located, they deploy Chinese<br \/>\nmilitary trucks and motorbikes to swiftly apprehend the offenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the source, North Korean authorities have<br \/>\ndetermined that their failure to prevent incidents such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/read.php?num=13916&amp;cataId=nk01500\"><font color=\"#0000ff\">recent defection<br \/>\nin North Hamgyong Province Hoeryong City <\/font><\/a>is due to their inability to block out<br \/>\ninformation networks. In other words, Kim Jong Un is concerned that the<br \/>\npossibility of making foreign telephone calls has a knock-on effect that spurs<br \/>\ndefection rates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In relation to this, Kim Jong Un issued an order to<br \/>\nthoroughly block the usage of Chinese cellphones in January of 2014. Those who<br \/>\nadmitted their wrongdoing were promised forgiveness; however, those who were<br \/>\ncaught after the order was put in effect were threatened with being sent to a<br \/>\nlabor camp, kindling an atmosphere of dread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Despite the regime\u2019s promise of clemency, no residents<br \/>\nstepped forward to admit past wrongdoing. Those who were caught with the<br \/>\nillegal phones avoided punishment by bribing the &nbsp;officials who initially<br \/>\napprehended them. The current order appears to be much stronger than the<br \/>\nineffective one from the past, the source said, noting, \u201cEnforcement appeared<br \/>\nto tighten up around the time of the Party Congress in early May.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition to the latest crackdown, electronic jamming<br \/>\nsignals are being used to corrupt the audio quality of foreign calls that<br \/>\nmanage to connect. Many phone calls are suddenly disconnected, according to the<br \/>\nsource. Furthermore, the bribe price one needs to pay to escape prosecution has<br \/>\njumped in proportion to the rising severity of the infraction. Consequently,<br \/>\n&nbsp;residents are keeping international phone calls as short as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But how much has the bribe price actually risen? When asked<br \/>\nabout this, the source explained, \u201cIn the past, residents had to pay<br \/>\napproximately 5,000-10,000 yuan.<br \/>\nNow, it is hard to get out of the situation even if one pays four times that<br \/>\namount. It feels like a<br \/>\ngunless, 21st century battlefield out here.\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She added, \u201cResidents have no ability to protest this order<br \/>\nand are doing their best to avoid detection. Those who earn their living<br \/>\nthrough such things as smuggling rely on Chinese cellphones and have complained<br \/>\nthat it\u2019s become even harder to make a living.\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to block would-be defectors and sensitive internal information from escaping North Korea, Kim Jong Un has handed down new punitive measures for those using illegal Chinese mobile phones. \u201cThe order has come down to treat Chinese cell phone users as traitors who have colluded with the South Joseon (South Korea) puppet state and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - 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